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Journeys Around Seattle, #58: Magnolia Park
Magnolia Park is a narrow strip of greenery that runs along the top of the bluffs at the south end of the Magnolia neighborhood. The views overlooking Puget Sound are extraordinary, especially on a...
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Bodies in Color, #4: Mystique
A couple weekends ago, I met up with a friend of mine to do a bodypainting shoot. I had previously shot photos of her Emma Frost cosplay, so we decided to keep with an X-Men theme for this shoot as...
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A Haunted Photoshoot
Recently, I had the opportunity to participate in a photoshoot at Spooked in Seattle, a local museum and tour company that specializes in ghost stories and real-life haunted areas around downtown...
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Backpacking on the Beach
Last weekend, Lisa and I drove out to one of the most isolated parts of the Washington state coastline, on the Olympic Peninsula near Lake Ozette, for a weekend backpacking trip. After waking up early...
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Journeys Around Seattle, #59: Big Four Ice Caves
On Thursday, Lisa and I drove up to Big Four Mountain, a couple hours north of Seattle in the Central Cascades. I've done photo expeditions in the area twice before, once to Darrington and once to the...
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Journeys Around Seattle, #60: Mt. Rainier - Paradise
This week, Lisa and I paid a visit to Mt. Rainier National Park. Our target hike was the Bench and Snow Lakes Trail, an easy 2.5 mile round trip on the south side of Mt. Rainier near Unicorn Peak, in...
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Journeys Around Seattle, #61: Ravenna Park
Despite having lived in Seattle for almost five years now, I hadn't ever walked through Ravenna Park, a large forested park not far from Greenlake. Its most prominent geographic feature of the park is...
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A Weekend Trip to Bellingham
View south from Samish Overlook Over Independence Day weekend, Lisa and I drove up to the seaside town of Bellingham, about an hour and a half north of Seattle, to stay with some friends and explore...
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Journeys Around Seattle, #62: Mt. Rainier - Mowich Lake & Spray Park
In my explorations of Mt. Rainier, until now, I'd only been to Paradise and Sunrise. These are the two most popular visitor areas, on the south and east side of the mountain, respectively. For this...
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Journeys Around Seattle, #63: Chasing the Lunar Eclipse
On September 27, a lunar eclipse happened simultaneously with a supermoon, a confluence which only happens once every eighteen years or so. Lisa and I had gone chasing a lunar eclipse a couple years...
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Bodies in Color, #5: The Golden Girl
With the newest James Bond movie, SPECTRE, coming out this weekend, it seemed as good a time as any to pay homage to one of the original Bond Girls-- Shirley Eaton, who suffered an unfortunate demise...
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Journeys Around Seattle, #64: Whidbey Island
Last weekend was a grey, rainy weekend, the kind of dismal weather Seattle is well-known for. It's a reputation that, in the winter months anyway, is well-deserved. Lisa and I were going stir-crazy,...
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Journeys Around Seattle, #65: Browns Point
Back in September, Lisa and I went on a drive to visit Dash Point State Park, north of Tacoma and west of Federal Way on the shore of Puget Sound. The park itself was on a small bit of shoreline,...
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Bodies in Color, #6: Merry Christmas
At the beginning of this year, when I did my first "Bodies in Color" shoot, I set a goal of doing at least one bodypainting shoot per month. However, between switching careers and moving apartments, I...
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The Olympic Peninsula in Winter
Evening on the water in Port Angeles Over the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend, Lisa and I drove out to the Olympic Peninsula. Our first goal was to drive up to Hurricane Ridge, but we...
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Hanna, Ship's Navigator
A couple weeks ago, I met up with Air Bubbles Cosplay to shoot her Hanna, Ship's Navigator costume. The character is from Magic: The Gathering, where she's the navigator and engineer of the skyship...
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Mardi Gras Colors
On Sunday, in lieu of watching the Super Bowl, I did a photoshoot to celebrate Mardi Gras (which is culminating today). Most of the bodypainting shoots I've done have been nude, but this time I wanted...
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A Glamorous Doll
This was a fun and very collaborative photoshoot. I met Nessa Boo through a Facebook photography group when she answered a model call for bodypainting shoots-- after some back-and-forth, we settled on...
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An Eastern Oregon Road Trip
( Approaching Steens Mountain Better a few months late than never? This was actually written a while ago, but I got so busy this Fall that I forgot to do a final cleanup and hit "Publish" until now....
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A California Spring
A couple weeks ago, Lisa and I flew down to Los Angeles to visit her family in Ventura. After spending a few days with her cousins, we said good-bye and set off on a drive up the state to San Jose,...
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